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key
guile-exception-2.0
short_name
GUILE exception to GPL 2.0
name
GUILE exception to GPL 2.0
category
Copyleft Limited
owner
Free Software Foundation (FSF)
is_exception
True
spdx_license_key
LicenseRef-scancode-guile-exception-2.0
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standard_notice
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this library; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. As a special exception, the Free Software Foundation gives permission for additional uses of the text contained in its release of GUILE. The exception is that, if you link the GUILE library with other files to produce an executable, this does not by itself cause the resulting executable to be covered by the GNU General Public License. Your use of that executable is in no way restricted on account of linking the GUILE library code into it. This exception does not however invalidate any other reasons why the executable file might be covered by the GNU General Public License. This exception applies only to the code released by the Free Software Foundation under the name GUILE. If you copy code from other Free Software Foundation releases into a copy of GUILE, as the General Public License permits, the exception does not apply to the code that you add in this way. To avoid misleading anyone as to the status of such modified files, you must delete this exception notice from them. If you write modifications of your own for GUILE, it is your choice whether to permit this exception to apply to your modifications. If you do not wish that, delete this exception notice.
license_text
The exception is that, if you link the GUILE library with other files to produce
an executable, this does not by itself cause the resulting executable to be
covered by the GNU General Public License. Your use of that executable is in no
way restricted on account of linking the GUILE library code into it.